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The body, exquisitely rendered. Anatomica: The Exquisite & Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy gathers the most striking and strange depictions of the human form from the 14th to the 2 0th century — over 250 images that walk the line, as the New York Times Book Review put it, between the horrible and the sublime. Editor Joanna Ebenstein traces humankind's centuries-long quest to know itself through the body — in sickness and in health, inside and out. The artworks gathered here reveal not only the anatomical facts but the shifting ideas about how the body should be represented, producing a visual history that continues to haunt and inspire popular culture today. The art of looking inward. Show more